Alexander Payne is attached to direct an adaptation of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s travel articles “My Saga” for Bona Fide Productions, TheWrap has learned.
Knausgaard is a Norwegian author who traced the Vikings’ historic trek through the Northern U.S. in two lengthy articles published in the New York Times Magazine last year. He was joined on his comedic, often absurd journey by Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael.
Bona Fide’s Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa will produce the project with the Scandinavian producers Madeleine Ekman and Lizette Jonic of Zentropa Sweden. The quartet will soon hire (a likely Scandinavian) writer to adapt the “My Saga” articles for the big screen.